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When in doubt, the answer is 'because Guido said so'. Benefits and downsides of having a BDFL on a language.
by kedean 11y ago
When in doubt, the answer is 'because Guido said so'. Benefits and downsides of having a BDFL on a language.
- agumonkey 11y agoHehe. Something funny I learned recently: Python reached version 1.0 in January 1994. The major new features included in this release were the functional programming tools lambda, map, filter and reduce. Van Rossum stated that "Python acquired lambda, reduce(), filter() and map(), courtesy of a Lisp hacker who missed them and submitted working patches".[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_1.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_1.0
- hga 11y agoAnd a dozen years later he wanted to wanting to purge them from the language, or at least lambda.